Could Blizzard find botters based on the macros that disable "Click To Move" ?

[Phenotype]

It is an interesting question because I am always using one of these macros as soon as the bot fires up. I only use CC bot so as you can guess, it is a pain in the ass to always have to disable click to move.

So I got two questions:

- Is it possible to permanently tell HB that I do not want click to move ever activated when I start it?

- Do you think that Blizzard could do a mass search for people with this macro "/console SET AutoInteract False" and then investigate if people are using bots?
(As far as I know, only botters would need a macro like that).

Many thanks for all the replies.

 

[EchoTiger]

- Do you think that Blizzard could do a mass search for people with this macro "/console SET AutoInteract False" and then investigate if people are using bots?
(As far as I know, only botters would need a macro like that).

They could, but I doubt they ever will.
I just don't see them putting that much effort into something like that when they have methods that are a lot more optimized for catching botters, and require a LOT less 'work'.

If you're actually worried over it, you can localize your macros by editing the WTF config files.

SET synchronizeConfig "0" 
-- turns off synchronization of UI settings 

SET synchronizeBindings "0"
-- turns off synchronization of key bindings

SET synchronizeMacros "0"
-- turns off synchronization of macros

As a heavy multiboxer, I use click-to-move to interact with distant NPCs/Objects on each character, and also utilize the macro you've posted.

 

[Phenotype]

Thanks a lot for the reply and the help with that macro setting.

I dont think it would require any work at all in finding users with those macros.

They have a database of macros by each user and if they run a search, they could pull all data on who has what macros. It is pretty easy to be honest, and that scares me lol.

 

[EchoTiger]

Thanks a lot for the reply and the help with that macro setting.

I dont think it would require any work at all in finding users with those macros.

They have a database of macros by each user and if they run a search, they could pull all data on who has what macros. It is pretty easy to be honest, and that scares me lol.

Yea, they could.
But, after they get their millions of results, they'll have to manually filter out all the dead-ends, then investigate each and every account that (actively?) uses the macro that's still an active account. (membershipped or not?)
A single investigation can take (up to) days at a time depending on the hundreds of variables they would also have to sort through when proving the account was actually botted on.

Well, yea, they have departments dedicated to hack detection / reversing hacks / investigation / etc, but I don't think it's nearly big enough to handle the current payload, plus something like this as an extra.

Also, it seems that issuing a database scan like that would take a lot of paper pushing/pulled strings; I doubt a mass scan would happen while the servers are online. Lol.

It just makes more sense that they would go with a easier/more reliable technique like algorithm scans, warden, or something more primitive like the good ol' player reports.


I'm not saying they "won't!" do something like this, you never know with Blizzard!
I'm just saying, (in my opinion) that they most likely won't. They're lazy enough as it is. xD